The H-P Tablet is Dead, Long Live the New Tablet

Less than three months after saying it was shutting down production of its TouchPad tablet, H-P is back with a new tablet computer, the HP Slate 2.

The device is actually a refresh to an earlier tablet, the Slate 500, which went on sale October 2010. Unlike the TouchPad, which ran the WebOS software that H-P acquired from Palm, its Slate tablets run Microsoft’s Windows 7 software.

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The Slate 2 sports an 8.9-inch screen and a rear-facing 3-megapixel camera. Its multi-touch display works with touch and pen input and the tablet features a new onscreen keyboard that H-P says is easier for data entry. Price starts at $699, a drop of $100 from its predecessor’s starting asking price.

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